The other day, in the midst of a meeting of my paper’s editorial staff, I found myself waving my Feminist card in a manner reminiscent of when I used to referee kids’ soccer games, and had to deploy the whistle-yellow-card combo. (More often than not, the recipients of said cards were not kids at all, […]
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The War Against Women is a War Against Everyone
Posted in culture, economy, feminism, gender roles, why women?, workplace, tagged " New York Times Magazine, "the End of Men", Ann Romney, economy, gender gap, gender roles, Hanna Rosin, health care reform, M.I.T., Michael Greenstone, reproductive rights, The Atlantic, The Hamilton Project, traditional worldview, war on women on September 4, 2012| 2 Comments »
That gagging sound you heard last week, when Ann Romney bellowed in her best Oprah voice, “I love you, womennnnnn!”? That was me. And not because I don’t love women; I do. And not because I don’t believe that Ann Romney loves women; I’m sure she does. It’s because, at best, this sentiment is utterly […]
You’ll Never Work In this Town Again!
Posted in being judged, culture, feminism, gender roles, the ticking clock, tagged Amazon, Annenberg Center, Backstage, center for the s, Center for the study of women and film in television, Clint Eastwood, Colin Firth, daily dot, gender gap, Geroge Clooney, hollywood, Hollywood Writer Report, Hugh Grant, IMBD, Jennifer Seibel Newsom, Jeremy Irons, Katheine Heigl, Marc Choueiti, Meryl Streep, Miss Representation, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Gere, Sean Connery, Stacy L. Smith, the Borgias, The Playboy Club, Vigo Mortenson, Women's Media Center on October 20, 2011| 1 Comment »
Surely you’ve heard about that million dollar lawsuit against Amazon filed by an anonymous actress who claims that Internet Movie Database (which is owned by Amazon) damaged her ability to get work because it published her age. According to the Daily Dot, the lawsuit claimed: “If one is perceived to be ‘over-the-hill,’ i.e., approaching 40, […]
Is Wanting to Look Good Anti-Feminist?
Posted in being judged, culture, feminism, the ticking clock, why women?, tagged aging, anna holmes, botox, feminism, jezebel, spanx, us vs. them, Washington Post on August 16, 2011| Leave a Comment »
If a feminist worries over her worry lines, frets over getting fat, or lusts after lipstick… but there’s no one around to witness it, can she still call herself a feminist? They’re questions we all ponder at one time or another, I suppose. Is buying Spanx buying into an oppressive ideal? Does dabbling in fillers […]
In The News
Posted in on July 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Here’s a select list of some of the buzz Undecided has generated: PRINT: Psychologies, July 7, 2014: “How to Make a U-Turn” Comstock’s Magazine, March 2012: “Feel the Burn” Santa Clara Magazine, January 2012: “Future Imperfect” The Weekly Herald, December 8, 2011: “Best of 2011: Business, society, science & God” Daily Mail, November 29, 2011: […]
The Birthday Myth
Posted in culture, feminism, the ticking clock, why women?, tagged aging, Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth on June 7, 2011| 3 Comments »
This Saturday is my birthday. And while I’ve never been one to turn down a celebration–whether said celebration takes the form of wine, food (specifically the three-course tasting menu at Julienne), or a jump out of a perfectly good airplane–the past couple of years have seen me less and less inclined to announce my birthday. […]
The Fix is In: F-words Galore.
Posted in feminism, grass-is-greener on April 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »
As F-words go, Fix might be one of the ugliest. As in, if your life measures low on the perfection scale, just go for the fix. Change the externals. Happiness to follow. It’s enough to make you drop an F-bomb of an entirely different sort. This all came to mind Wednesday when our morning paper […]
Man Up? Man Down! News of the End of Men Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Posted in being judged, culture, feminism, why women?, worklife balance, workplace, tagged "Man Down", "Manning Up", "the End of Men", baby fever, Dan Abrams, DoubleX, feminism, Hanna Rosin, Joy Behar, Kay Hymowitz, M.I.T., Marie Claire, New York Times, pay gap, The Atlantic on March 22, 2011| 1 Comment »
Oh, how I tire of the End of Men headlines. Two recent books have reignited the conversation, though, as their titles indicate, they come at it from decidedly different perspectives. In “Manning Up,” Kay Hymowitz argues that men taking longer to grow up and get married (which are, you know, boogeyman-bad phenomena) is a problem […]
Backlash bedamned: Fear not the alpha gals
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", culture, feminism, life choices, tagged backlash, beauty or brains, Katrin Bennhold, Maureen Dowd, successful women, Tracy Clark-Flory on December 2, 2010| 2 Comments »
Successful women, watch out. The menfolk, they don’t like us. At least that’s the message from a New York Times piece by Katrin Bennhold, titled “Keeping Romance Alive in the Age of Female Empowerment”. And since we’re all, you know, successful women, we thought we ought to parse it out if only to share the […]